Murder by the Sea
Murder by the Sea: Season 5

Air Date

September 8, 2020

Episodes

10 episodes

Murder by the Sea

Season 5

Episodes

1. The Hotelier and the Hitman

September 8, 2020
60 min

An arrogant Bournemouth hotelier called Peter Taylor gets away with murdering his wife in 1982; but when he conspires to kill his son-in-law nine years later, his luck runs out.

2. Brides in the Bath

September 15, 2020
60 min

George Smith, an Edwardian man who married a string of women, only to drown them in a bath and steal their money, was eventually caught and hanged in 1915.

3. Roderick and Mark Newall - Jersey

September 22, 2020
60 min

In 1987, two brothers from a well-to-do family killed their parents in such brutal fashion that it still haunts the people of Jersey to this day.

4. Massacre at Red Gables Hotel

September 29, 2020
60 min

Former military commander Neil Rutherford unleashes terror on the unsuspecting guests of a remote Welsh seaside hotel in 1976, before turning the gun on himself.

5. Robert Dixon - Little Ross

October 6, 2020
60 min

The discovery of the body of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish island of Little Ross in 1960 prompts a massive man hunt for his killer, assistant lighthouse keeper Robert Dickson.

6. Robert and Sonny Mone - Dundee

January 5, 2021
60 min

For Dundees most infamous father-son pair, killing was a competition, and between them murdered seven innocent people from 1967 to 1979.

7. Hassan Shatanawi

January 12, 2021
60 min

Having brutally murdered his wife in 1993, Hassan Shatanawi thought he had effectively made her vanish from the face of the earth but he made one crucial oversight.

8. The Seaside Lady Macbeth

January 19, 2021
60 min

A scandalous love triangle between a beautiful socialite Alma Rattenbury, her young gardener George Stoner and estranged husband Francis cast a shadow of disrepute and death over 1930s Bournemouth.

9. The Last Taxi Rider

January 26, 2021
60 min

Port Talbot taxi driver Linda Thomas made a fatal journey one night in 1973, when she picked up a homicidal homeless drifter called Trevor Howell.

10. The Mystery of the Man in the Woods

February 2, 2021
60 min

A young man, Tyrone France, becomes embroiled in Newport's drugs underworld, meeting a disastrous end in a remote forest clearing in 1996.